New York Post Will Launch The California Post in Los Angeles
“Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated.”
The New York Post announced plans to launch a daily newspaper in Los Angeles called The California Post.
Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post https://t.co/HqIWFuhThb pic.twitter.com/hDeewdvjnW
— New York Post (@nypost) August 4, 2025
“Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated,” declared Robert Thomson, CEO of The Post’s parent company, News Corp. “We are at a pivotal moment for the city and the state, and there is no doubt that The Post will play a crucial role in engaging and enlightening readers, who are starved of serious reporting and puckish wit.”
The California Post will mirror The New York Post but concentrate on California stories.
The new paper will include national and international news written by those in New York.
Axios noted that 90% of The New York Post‘s readership lives outside of New York.
Journalist Nick Papps will lead the charge:
Veteran journalist Nick Papps will take the reins as editor in chief, bringing nearly two decades of experience. He has helped drive editorial and commercial success at multiple publications, including as News Corp Australia’s West Coast correspondent for nearly three years when Papps was based in LA.
The new venture from The New York Post Media Group — home to The Post, Page Six and Decider — will also expand the oversight of New York Post Editor in Chief Keith Poole.
“He will now be responsible for covering not just New York, but California, the US, the world and perhaps, Mars,” Thomson quipped.
“This is the next manifestation of our national brand,” explained Poole. ”California is the most populous state in the country, and is the epicenter of entertainment, the AI revolution and advanced manufacturing — not to mention a sports powerhouse. Yet many stories are not being told, and many viewpoints are not being represented.”
Los Angeles is ripe for a boost in journalism.
The Los Angeles Times has a history of bias, causing an explosion in October after owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong refused to allow the paper to endorse a presidential candidate.
Mariel Garza resigned as The Los Angeles Times‘ editorial editor over the move, admitting it’s “a very liberal paper.”
Soon-Shiong did not back down, promising a new editorial board and wanting to bring back balance to the paper later that month:
He wrote on X, “The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation.
In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years. In this way, with this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years.”
“Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the Editorial Board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision. Please #vote,” the message concluded.
So many comments about the @latimes Editorial Board not providing a Presidential endorsement this year. Let me clarify how this decision came about.
The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH…
— Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong (@DrPatSoonShiong) October 23, 2024
Two weeks ago, Soon-Shiong announced the L.A. Times Next Network and taking the paper public:
The new diversified media company is designed to rebuild trust in media and give voice to all by combining verified information, emerging technologies, and community participation across news, culture, entertainment, sports, and civic engagement.
The Network consists of five coordinated pillars: the Los Angeles Times; LAT Next, a curated creator platform; Nant Games, focused on esports and civic/scientific gaming; NantStudios Virtual Production, offering real-time virtual production capabilities; and L.A. Times Studios, supporting streaming, live events, and forums.
The initiative will also pursue a novel Reg A+ financing, led by the investment bank Digital Offering, to broaden public ownership and participation allowing the readers, supporters and fans of the Los Angeles Times to become shareholders.
“It’s important for the paper to have the voices of all, and that’s what I wanted to do, right?” Soon-Shiong told Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “Whether you’re right, left, Democrat, Republican, you’re an American, so the opportunity for us to provide a paper that is the voices of the people, truly the voices of the people, so I’m going to announce something to you tonight… we’re literally going to take the L.A. Times public and allow it to be democratized.”
The Los Angeles Times lost $50 billion in 2024 and fire 115 staffers.
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Comments
When I was growing up and living in Los Angeles County (1945-1974), the Los Angeles Times did not endorse presidential candidates. They said that the readers had enough information to make their own decisions.
In the 1950s we had the Tines, the Examiner, the Herald Express, the Hollywood Citizen News, and, I believe Beverly Hills had a newspaper called The Star.
Oh, and the Tines sister afternoon paper, The Mirror.
I remember those days in SoCal. In Covina my buddy down the street delivered the Mirror. When we lived in Pomona they had the Progress-Bulletin which we called the “All Bull No Progress”. I’m in NorCal now and the East Bay Times is not much more than propaganda cut and paste from the NYT, AP, or WashPoo.
I hope the California Post will be available in NorCal as a daily and Sunday.
It will be interesting to see their circulation after a year unless they go all digital which they probably should.
If print newspapers were still a trendy thing, this would be an excellent move and well timed politically.
But I can’t help but feel that the NYP is buying into a fatal market slump.
People in LA like to read things? I thought they just looked at the pics.
They MAKE the pics. Then they believe they’re news.
Once upon a time in Wakanda, the Happiest Place on Earth…
Oh, this could be good….